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utw-Mephisto

utw-Mephisto

utw-Mephisto

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I bought my last PC about 5 years ago and spend about 3000 Pound which was well invested since I never had to upgrade anything until now ..

I saved up about the same amount and want to build once again a reference PC ... Since I had also bad expeirences with my last rig (incompatibility of certain hardware followed by bluescreens etc.) I would like to ask you for your oppinnion if the hardware I have in mind "fits" ...

Mobo
Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe nForce4 SLi X16 (Socket 939)

CPU
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core FX60 (Socket 939)

CPU cooler
Zalman CNPS7700-CU Ultra-Quiet

RAM
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-8500C5 TwinX (2x1GB)
Some suggestions are Corsair 1GB DDR XMS3500LL Pro TwinX instead

PSU
Tagan TG1100-U95 1100W ATX2.01 Turbojet Quad SLi Silent PSU

Graphics
GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB (two of them)

HDD
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB WD1500AHFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000KS SATA-II 16MB Cache

Screen
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24"

I am short of a few hundred pounds which can be saved over the next two month .. but what you think about this ?

This rig should be enough for another 5 years I hope ...
 
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If you have that much money to throw at a PC, why the hell aren't you getting a Conroe?

Even the budget Conroes can give an FX-60 a run for its money!

SiriusB
 
I don't know - never had an Intel .. I am kinda AMD infected ..

Any Mobo and CPU siggestions then ?

edit: wow

The Core 2 Extreme clocked at 2.93GHz was able to beat the AMD Athlon FX-62 on average by 15-25% in the latest gaming tites such as Fear, Quake4, Doom3, Oblivion and many more games.
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mm.... thanks for the tip ..
 
TBH if you want to play games on it, there's no chance in hell of it lasting for 5 years. DX10 will be required within the next 3 for most major games and with parallelism growing all the time, multi-core chips will make dual cores obsolute.
 
utherpendragon said:
TBH if you want to play games on it, there's no chance in hell of it lasting for 5 years. DX10 will be required within the next 3 for most major games and with parallelism growing all the time, multi-core chips will make dual cores obsolute.
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Come on .. don't exaggerate ...

You want to tell me that in two years time (or whatever) you will get games which are impossible to play on Dual Core Intel / AMD and 2 GB Graphics RAM ?

If this is the case - screw that game - honestly ...
 
utw-Mephisto said:
Come on .. don't exaggerate ...

You want to tell me that in two years time (or whatever) you will get games which are impossible to play on Dual Core Intel / AMD and 2 GB Graphics RAM ?

If this is the case - screw that game - honestly ...
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I can't quite see it myself either, most games now will still work on older hardware with the detail levels turned down(sometimes quite severely). I've played Half Life 2(not the most demanding game admittedly) on a 4 to 5 year old Athlon 1.2ghz with 512mb Ram and a Geforce 2 GTS which cost me somewhere slightly over 1K(pesky American keyboards without pound signs) brand new. That said 64bit CPUs are now mainstream so maybe the situation will change a bit faster but I still don't think that a PC costing the better part of 3K is going to be outdated quite that fast.

Not that it really matters now but your Ram in the initial specification would be incompatible with the motherboard, it would however be fine in a Conroe based system or an AM2 should you be totally set on AMD. I'd probably suggest Conroe though unless you have a major brand allegiance to AMD and I might not suggest getting 2x7950s for quad SLi if you might want to upgrade to a DX10 compatible card in the near(ish) future.

The Seagate 7200.10 drives are also probably a better bet in terms of capacity/speed than the 500gb WD that you selected and they aren't that far off Raptor speed apparantly with new 'perpendicular' writing technology
 
IMO, it will be silly not to go Intel Core 2 Duo, see here & keep an eye on the £154.95 E6400 & £214.95 E6600, against AMD's £189.95 5000+ & £499.95 FX62 :eek:

EDIT: Working with your budget, something like this should be good for awhile...
  • Intel Core 2 DUO E6700 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.67GHz (1066FSB) - OEM (CP-136-IN) £339.95
  • Gigabyte GA_965P_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-062-GI) £109.95
  • G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ) (MY-013-GS) £147.95
  • HIS ATI Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ 3 SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-HT) £219.95
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-079-SE) £52.55
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB ST3500630AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-084-SE) £161.50
  • Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black) (CD-078-SA) £20.95
  • Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) (HS-017-AR) £14.95
  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music - OEM (SC-043-CL) £48.50
  • Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Black Aluminium Midi-Tower Case (No PSU) (CA-054-LL) £48.95
  • Tagan TG700-U25 700W ATX2.0 Dual Engine Silent SLi Compliant Silent PSU (CA-014-TG) £99.95
  • Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey (MO-009-DE) £539.95
  • Subtotal £1,805.10
  • VAT £315.90
  • Total £2,121.00
 
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yeh im in the same situation, i have always had AMD and never even thought about moving to Intel but Conroe is in a league of its own and i cant wait for the E6600 to get in stock so i can build me a beast :)
 
utw-Mephisto said:
Nice setting, thanks ...

I just have to get used to the idea of having an Intel (had only AMD so far) and ATI (had only NVIDIA so far) ....
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The X1900 is an awesome card, and apart from the 7950 [which is a gimmick - and an expensive one at that], is the best card around!

With DX10 coming sometime next year it seems silly to spend 400+ on a card that will become outdated. True, 200+quid for an X1900 is not great when it gets outdated but you will be 200 quid better off :D

SiriusB
 
I just made up my mind ....

I gave the whole DirectX10 thing (and Vista) a thought and I must admit : You are right.. It would be stupid to invest so much money if I might say in January : damn ...

What I do now : I gonna buy a GeForce 7800 AGP for under 200 Pounds and wait then until the next year and decide then, based on the marked, if I go Intel or AMD, NVIDIA or ATI .. therefore an AGP card since I don't want to buy an Intel board or AMD since I am not 100% sure about that .. I am 100% sure that I need a new GFX since my 5900 Ultra is about to die ....

Thanks for your tips and hints guys ..
 
I doubt that games will not be able to be played on a Dual core as one of the Main points to Vista is as far as i know to support Dual Core and 64bit
 
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